Eric Edmond UKIP MEP Candidate SW Region
What I will do if chosen and elected
- Use the letters MEP to keep the UKIP name and brand in the UK media as much as possible
- Go to Brussels as little as possible. I would prefer not to go at all
like the IRA did when elected to Westminster. The IRA won. I want to win.
- I will use every trick and tactic to obstruct the EU.
- Euro Assembly as Mrs Thatcher always called it is a pointless talking shop and I will show it as that.
- Give all salary to UKIP – some £40k pa
- I will not employ any members of my family
- Visit every South West Branch each year
- Contact & lunch local paper & TV editors all the time –
use MEP expenses for that!
What I believe in
- Equality and equal opportunity for all irrespective of colour creed or religion.
- Rule of Law and true honest democracy.
- I will always put my country’s interests before party interests.
- I want our country back for our children.
- I want a country with a reducing population & a rising GDP/capita and standard of living.
- I want UK citizenship to have to be earned by 15 years of honest work and a clean criminal record
- I want real democracy with frequent referendums when the citizens want one
- I want a country like Switzerland with an EU trade agreement like the Swiss one
- I want to copy the Swiss rules for immigration and asylum.
- I don’t want a country for self-important greedy political careerists.
- I dont want the EU that tries to run the world – like Napoleon and Hitler.
- I dont want to be in a 4th Reich or Holy Roman Empire called the EU.
- If we had stayed out of Europe in 1914 my family and the country would have benefited hugely.
Who I am
- I have never been in any other political party.
- I live in Somerset. My wife is a paediatrician. I have 4 children aged 20 to 31.
- Educated at Edinburgh & Oxford University where I was taught by Mrs Thatcher's old tutor Dorothy Hodgkin
- Civil Service 71/73 during Heath's Common Market Entry - resigned in disgust
- Liverpool University Lecturer 74/96
- Bank of England market mathematician 98/03 preparing MPC briefings and working with other central banks
Elected to UKIP NEC 2008
My strategy to get out of the EU
The Euro, is central to EU project It needs a state to back it, hence the Lisbon Treaty. I know where its weakness lies. I will write and talk endlessly about the weakness in the Euro and hence undermine the EU
I will cultivate our core vote of retired people who what this country was before Major Blair Brown
I will go for the over taxed middle class vote
Only the UK parliament can get us out of the EU and I will work to get UKIP MPs elected and force other parties to back us in a repeal of Heath's 1972 European Act
What I promise - I will live up to the motto of the city of my birth, Leith, and
I will Persevere to get us out of the EU in my lifetime
Contact me at:eric_edmond@hotmail.com